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Quotes by Historian
"The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash."
9
"Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up."
8
"My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house."
8
"On the day I was born, or possibly on one of the following days, my father went on a walk in the forested hills and thought of a name for me. His first son was called Daniel, and Samuel in memory of one of his forefathers."
8
"Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art."
8
"The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images."
8
"Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty."
8
"It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine."
8
"Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914."
8
"Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself."
8
"So long as large armies go to battle, so long will the air arm remain their spearhead."
7
"Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history."
7
"Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves."
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7
"For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources."
7
"An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia."
7
"My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right."
7
"There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."
7
"History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."
7
"Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible."
7
"All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."
7
"Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces."
7
"We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway."
7
"It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task."
7
"The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development."
7
"Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will."
7
"The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image."
7
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